linux-kernel - Re: [Regression] kdesu broken

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Message-ID: <20090726155121.GN3232@localdomain.by>
Date:	Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:51:21 +0300
From:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...l.by>
To:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	rjw@...k.pl, ray-lk@...rabbit.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...l.by>
Subject: Re: [Regression] kdesu broken

On (07/25/09 16:02), Frans Pop wrote:
> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:02:48 +0200
> From: Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
> To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> Cc: torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, rjw@...k.pl, ray-lk@...rabbit.org,
> 	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
> 	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...l.by>
> Subject: Re: [Regression] kdesu broken
> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9
> 
> Alan Cox wrote:
> > Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >> We don't do regressions. If user space depended on old behavior, we
> >> don't change behavior
> > 
> > I think there are two bugs being confused here. The first kdesu bug
> > isn't the EIO one. It's just busted userspace code that happened to be
> > lucky. 
> > It's also impossible to keep that "luck" going. The other problem is the
> > EIO - which is a bug.
>  
> Just out of curiosity ad for reference.
> Has this issue already been reported to the KDE people? Any links to a bug 
> report or discussions there?
> 

Not yet.

Sergey
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